The soldiers of the provincial command of the Guardia di Finanza of Chieti, under the direction of the local Public Prosecutor's Office, have concluded a complex judicial police activity to combat the phenomenon of fraudulent administration of in the road freight transport sector. The transaction brought to light an articulated system of fraud, of a transnational tax evasion, aimed at tax and social security evasion: a mechanism of transnational caporalato and social dumping which, starting from Abruzzo, has taken on projections and relevance of national character.

The investigation revealed the first well-founded suspicions of employment irregular labour of non-EU labour, mainly Albanian nationality, by some companies theatines who used the institution of detachment in an instrumental way legal procedure under which a company foreign company temporarily "loans" its employees (who are supernumerary at that time) to another company, for example Italian, to carry out a certain work. According to Italian law, these workers must be guaranteed the same wages and rights as workers Italians.

The investigations, carried out in concert with the financial offices Albanians, instead showed that the contracts were completely fictitious companies: the foreign companies that seconded staff were in reality mere screen society ("letter box company") without a real operational structure. They served, So, just as a legal cover to recruit drivers, pay them much less than necessary and not paying taxes and contributions to INPS, creating unfair competition between companies in the sector and exploiting workers. Formal documentation (contracts, communications, etc.), acquired in the course of the activity investigative administration, therefore hid a real administration fraudulent labour of labour, from which they unduly benefited Italian companies in terms of lower costs of nature contribution-social security, welfare and taxation. Consequently, Italian companies have been identified as the actual and exclusive employers of the workers, in favour of whom they should have complied with the obligations of national law through the establishment of a regular employment relationship subordinate with the drivers who, therefore, have been qualified as "black" employees.

As a result of the investigative activity, the following were found to be 18 companies were involved, four of which were under foreign law and five operating in the Chieti area. The latter were charged violations of the administrative liability of bodies for the failure to adopt internal anti-crime protocols. According to national law, if managers commit offences to advantage of the company, even the company itself is investigated and sanctioned if it does not demonstrate that it has prepared adequate prevention rules.

The total budget of the operation is 14 people referred to the judicial authorities, of tax evasion of about six million euros to the Teatine clubs alone direct and indirect taxes, the issuance of invoices for non-existent transactions totalling over 3.5 million euro and 95 undeclared job positions identified, with a estimated social security and welfare contribution evasion a total of over 1.2 million euros.